AI dialog systems are now developing from question-answering systems toward advising systems. This includes: discussed here, but see (Jameson, Wahlster 1982). The second part o f this paper presents user modelling with respect to a dialog strategy which selects and verbalizes the appropriate speech act of recommendation. structuring dialog understanding and generating a wider range o f speech a...

Abstract Based on Rauen’s goal-conciliation theory, Sperber and Wilson’s relevance Brown Levinson’s politeness we model in this essay the utterance “Can you pass salt?”-taken as a classic example of polite request between theorists-assuming mobilization or attenuated speech act contributes to accomplishment practical goals. Next, discuss modeling considering some criticisms produced by second-w...

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

This study is a contrastive one on the speech act of request in British English and Mandarin Chinese. It investigates the similarities and differences in request modifications used by native speakers of both languages on the bases of nine designed situations. The choice of modifications in each situation is determined to some degree by the social variables of power and distance. However, a deep...

We present a speech act interpretation system that has the generality of previous plan-based approaches but also can distinguish subtleties of phrasing. As a result, a sentence such as Can you pass the salt can be recognized as a request to pass the salt, whereas Tell me whether you are able to pass the salt is a question about the hearer's abilities. The system also provides a framework for in...

В статье представлены подтипы речевого акта «директив» - мольба, просьба, требование и с угрозой как иллокутивный концепт дифференцирующими признаками. Просодия выступает главным фактором, разграничивающим данные подтипы. Под иллокутивным концептом понимается ментальный образ, выраженный вербально словом, словосочетанием или предложением. На основе экспериментально-фонетического исследования на...

We propose an account of indirect forms of speech acts to request and inform based on the hypothesis that language users can recognize actions being performed by others, infer goals being sought, and cooperate in their achievement. This cooperative behaviour is independently motivated and may or may not be intended by speakers. If the hearer believes it is intended, he or she can recognize the ...